Murraya koenigii is one of the herbal plants, originates in India and
mainly used as flavouring agent in Indian cuisine and in many other Asian
countries. Due to the presence of number of phytochemicals, curry leaves
exhibit properties like antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancerous,
antidiabetic, antiinflammatory etc. These are used to cure diseases like
hypertension, hyperglycemia, cough, cold, skin infections, poisonous stings
etc. Curry leaves are acidic in nature, bitter in taste having little pungent
smell and are mainly used in dried form. For this present study, curry leaves
were collected from Punjab agriculture university, Ludhiana. Different tests
were performed in order to detect phytochemicals from curry leaves and to
confirm its antimicrobial property. Pharmacological studies were done which
involves study of morphology, physical properties and microscopic properties of
Murraya koenigii. After performing qualitative and quantitative analysis,
following phytochemicals were seem to be present in Murraya koenigii which are
phenols, flavenoids, saponins, tannins, sugars, alkaloids etc. It was also seen
that curry leaves show antimicrobial properties against E. coli and
Saphylococus aureus which was seen by measuring the zone of inhibtion.
Antioxidant properties were also detected in curry leaves by using UV 1800
spectrophotometer using DPPH.
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